Botnets Getting Smaller

Security experts believe that cybercriminals are shrinking the botnets to make them harder to detect by internet security tools. After being infected by botnets, your average system becomes a "zombie", and starts to distribute spam and malware across the Web, infecting more machines in the process, and finally creating a viscious circle of internet parasites. This allows hackers to use a zombie army to push their own agenda and make loads of cash.

With war on botnets on the rise, cybercriminals attempt to use new tactics to combat the secturity tools: large botnets are being broken into smaller ones, thus minimizing anti-botnet applications’ capabilities at detecting them. Strangely enough, the decrease in size also means a decrease in complexity, and the new smaller, simpler botnets still loom large across the Net, shocking many security experts and making them redefine their own tactics at combating the new threats, as less complex parasites storm the Web en masse.

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